This poet has revolutionized poetry and the cause of woman-centered
culture. She reads from An Atlas of the Difficult World,
Diving into the
Wreck and The Fact of a Doorframe and speaks with Michael
Silverblatt in
Los Angeles on May 14, 1992. From the Lannan Literary
Videos series. 60
mins.
Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker is most famous for
novels like The Color
Purple. In this video she reads passages from that novel,
along with works
from Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, Horses Make
a
Landscape Look More Beautiful and The Temple of My Familiar.
It was
recorded on January 9, 1989, in Los Angeles, but the interview
was
conducted by Evelyn White at Walker's northern California
home. From the
Lannan Literary Videos series. 60 mins.
As the bard of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg
helped revive American
poetry in the 1950s. In this video, his reading and musical
performance of
poems from Collected Poems 1947-1980 is captured as it
was
experienced on February 25, 1989. Lewis MacAdams conducted
the
interview. From the Lannan Literary Videos series. 90
mins.
Reading from Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between
Us along
with works in progress, Forche underscores her interest
in the brutal
events of the 20th century. Recorded in Los Angeles on
February 12, 1990,
this video includes an interview with this Lannan Literary
Fellowship winner,
conducted by Lewis MacAdams. From the Lannan Literary
Videos series.
65 mins.
This Lannan Literary Fellowship-winner reads the entire
text of her work
The Angel of History. It occurred on May 24, 1994, in
Los Angeles. In
addition, she spoke to Michael Silverblatt about her enduring
concerns with
the traumatic events of our time. From the Lannan Literary
Videos series.
94 mins.
Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1980. He read from
Selected Poems, The Separate Notebooks and Unattainable
Earth in Los
Angeles on September 12, 1988. Lewis MacAdams interviewed
this poet,
novelist, critic and philosopher born in Lithuania. From
the Lannan Literary
Videos series. 60 mins.
Denise Levertov, though born in England, has become
an important
American poet, essayist, editor and teacher. In this video
she reads from
Evening Train and from some of her unpublished works.
The reading took
place in Los Angeles on December 7, 1993. From the Lannan
Literary
Videos series. 60 mins.
A major Irish poet, Eavan Boland explores the relationship
between gender,
art and national identity. She read from In a Time of
Violence and Outside
History on November 16, 1994, in Los Angeles. She also
spoke with poet
Eloise Klein Healy, author of Artemis in Echo Park. From
the Lannan
Literary Videos series. 60 mins.
Galway Kinnell is a winner of
the Pulitzer Prize and of a 1983 American
Book Award. In this video, he reads from his books What
a Kingdom It
Was, Body Rags, The Book of Nightmares, Mortal Acts, Mortal
Wounds,
The Past and Selected Poems in Los Angeles on April 18,
1988. Lewis
MacAdams conducts the interview. From the Lannan Literary
Videos
series. 60 mins.
Influenced by Zen and other elements of Eastern culture,
this winner of the
Pulitzer Prize is one of the United States' most highly
regarded poets. He
read from Axe Handles, Left Out in the Rain and unpublished
manuscripts
on December 12, 1988. Lewis MacAdams conducted the interview.
From
the Lannan Literary Videos series. Two volumes. 60 minutes
each.
As a member of the Muscogee (Creek) nation, the poet
Joy Harjo draws on
the experience of her people. This winner of an American
Book Award read
from She Had Some Horses and In Mad Love and War in Laguna
Beach,
California, on February 18, 1989. Lewis MacAdams conducted
the
interview. From the Lannan Literary Videos series. 60
mins.
Louise Gluck, winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award,
reads
excerpts from her books Firstborn, Descending Figure,
The House on
Marshland and The Triumph of Achilles in Los Angeles on
April 4, 1988.
Lewis MacAdams interviews her. From the Lannan Literary
Videos series.
60 mins.
This co-founder of the Black Mountain poetry movement
reads poems from
his Collected Poems, 1945-1975 and Mirrors, Windows, as
well as work in
progress in this video. Recorded on April 16, 1990, this
tape also includes
an interview of the poet conducted by Lewis MacAdams.
From the Lannan
Literary Videos series. 60 mins.
Ireland's complex, violent past informs Seamus Heaney's
poetry. He reads
from Selected Poems 1966-1987 and also speaks with Michael
Silverblatt
for this video. It was recorded on October 15, 1991, in
Los Angeles. From
the Lannan Literary Videos series. 60 mins.
Sharon Olds' first book, Satan Says, won the inaugural
San Francisco
Poetry Center Award, while her next book, The Dead and
the Living, won a
National Book Critics Circle Award. Ms. Olds read from
the latter book and
from The Gold Cell on April 8, 1991, in Los Angeles. Lewis
MacAdams
conducted the interview. From the Lannan Literary Videos
series. 60 mins.
Born in England, Thom Gunn has lived in northern California
since 1954.
His austere poems of love and death testify to his mastery
as a poet. In this
video he reads from his Collected Poems and talks with
Wendy Lesser,
the founding editor of The Threepenny Review. The interview
and reading
took place on October 18, 1994, in Los Angeles. From the
Lannan Literary
Videos series. 60 mins.
This winner of the Pulitzer Prize is a poet, playwright,
translator and
activist. He read from Selected Poems and Rain in the
Trees in Los
Angeles on May 16, 1988. Lewis MacAdams conducted the
interview. From
the Lannan Literary Videos series. 60 mins.